On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:25:30PM -0400, Geoff Doctor wrote:
:
: Last year about this time, I ended up buying a Lombard 400, and 3
: months later sold it and bought a Pismo 500. I never regret doing that,
: this pismo is a much better computer, and here are some reasons why I
: prefer it.
:
on 14/07/03 02:37, John Slavin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I apologize if this has already been covered, but can you use the
internal Mic on a Wallstreet with OS X? I decided I would try iChatAV
and use the voice part, but I can't seem to get the Mic to respond. I
went into the System
I've been following this thread as I contemplate the next used PowerBook to buy. I
currently have a PB3400 so I would like to get up into the G3 realm next. I see some
really good deals on used iBooks but the Pismos seem to be very popular and are
usually about the same money or more than a
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 8:51 am -0400, Tom Roth wrote:
I've been following this thread as I contemplate the next used PowerBook
to buy. I currently have a PB3400 so I would like to get up into the G3
realm next. I see some really good deals on used iBooks but the Pismos
seem to be very popular
Any bright ideas as what the problem is and how to fix it?
My 3 year old pismo (OS 9.22, 382 Mb Ram, stock 20Mb HD) has stopped
recognising CD's. I put a CD or CD-R in the drive, close the unit, the
drive spins up, spins down about a second later and that's it. Checking
in sys profiler shows
Biggest question is what do you intend to do with the machine? If it just a
word processor and internet/chat machine, then a wallstreet or clamshell
iBook would do. (For video-out, a later model iBook would be needed.)
I have only recently upgraded to a white iBook (from a 1400). Man, this
thing
Try http://mywebpages.comcast.net/gionpeters//pb1400.htm
Towards the bottom of the page he suggests how to fix a 1400's CD drive.
Might work for you too...
Wiebe.
On 14/7/03 11:36 PM, Pete Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any bright ideas as what the problem is and how to fix it?
My 3
Speed is certianly a primary consideration but what about things like the quality of
construction? Is the iBook as well made as the Pismo or is it going to fall apart?
What about the feel of the keyboard? Things that make up the daily experience of
using the computer. So if you had the
You'll probably be told this by a hundred other people on this list but the
answer is those dreaded letters LG. These Lucky Goldstar drives fail all
the time. I got through three of them until someone said try and the
Matsushita brand. So far, mine has been fine. I'm sure you'll find that's
the
I had this exact same problem and figuring that the mechanism was blown,
bought a new mechanism for it from Wegener Media. They mentioned this happens a
lot with the DRN8080B mechanism, and they've found a new revision of the drive
which is less problematic. As it's working perfectly now
I've been following this thread as I contemplate the next used
PowerBook to buy. I currently have a PB3400 so I would like
to get up into the G3 realm next. I see some really good deals
on used iBooks but
Okay... FWIW, I should probably go into more detail about my decision
stream. I was
On Monday 14 July 2003 12:35 pm, Steve Fuller wrote:
It also has this shock and awe effect on people. Pismos, Lombards and
Wallstreets all just have this look at me, I'm bitchen vibe. The big,
bright TFT screen, the luminous white apple shining on the Stealth
Black lid
of the case...it
On 14/07/03 16:33, Michelle Klein-Hass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 14 July 2003 12:35 pm, Steve Fuller wrote:
It also has this shock and awe effect on people. Pismos, Lombards and
Wallstreets all just have this look at me, I'm bitchen vibe. The big,
bright TFT screen, the luminous
The upside down Apple wasn't meant to be upside down. All PowerBooks
had it set to face the user when they were sitting with it closed on
their lap. The Pismo was the last to have it that way, starting with
iBooks and the PowerBook G4 they flipped it so it would be right side
up to observers.
Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
Yes. The jolly, candy-like UPSIDE DOWN Apple. They fixed it on the Pismo,
right?
No, they didn't 'fix' it on the Pismo. The reason for this is that
before Steve Jobs the apple on your powerbook was for you to see,
nowadays it's meant to be seen by other people.
on 7/14/03 2:20 PM, jdc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
Yes. The jolly, candy-like UPSIDE DOWN Apple. They fixed it on the Pismo,
right?
No, they didn't 'fix' it on the Pismo. The reason for this is that
before Steve Jobs the apple on your powerbook was for you to
On Monday 14 July 2003 02:20 pm, jdc wrote:
Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
Yes. The jolly, candy-like UPSIDE DOWN Apple. They fixed it on the Pismo,
right?
No, they didn't 'fix' it on the Pismo. The reason for this is that
before Steve Jobs the apple on your powerbook was for you to see,
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Joaquim
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on 7/14/03 2:36 PM, jdc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Joaquim
How do you know most are scams? I'm really interested in this because I've
On 14/07/03 17:36, jdc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
I purchased my Pismo through eBay. I chose an escrow service and everything
went smoothly.
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that
How do you know most are scams? I'm really interested in this because
I think he's trolling. Over the past 3-4 years I have bought at least
sixty laptops on ebay (three or four of which were PowerBooks), three
iPods,
on 7/14/03 2:36 PM, jdc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Joaquim
I have. It's true. Tons of stolen merchandise, or no merchandise at all,
He isn't trolling.
There have been several accounts by various people including different
Mac websites about there being PowerBook auction scams. Mainly the
conversation consists of why are so many scams for PowerBooks?
followed by a bunch of guessing.
In reality there don't seem to be that
This group is beyond belief; arguing that the Apple is upside down on one
machine and the right way on another. That's like deciding that last year's
minivan model with only three doors was wrong, then it was fixed when this
year's included a four door version. NEITHER IS WRONG--THEY'RE ONLY
This group is beyond belief; arguing that the Apple is upside down on
one
machine and the right way on another. That's like deciding that
I dunno that it got that intense. What I read here was it's more
sensible for the apple to be right way up when the machine is open.
My only beef with
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
Hmm. I could care less about the cellphone (email lets me deal with
things in my own time), but an MP3 wristwatch sounds like a cool idea.
ASCII shall recieve!
http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/conel/mp3watch/
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
Hmm. I could care less about the cellphone (email lets me deal with
things in my own time), but an MP3 wristwatch sounds like a cool idea.
There's one made by Casio.
Joaquim
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on 7/14/03 4:32 PM, jdc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
Hmm. I could care less about the cellphone (email lets me deal with
things in my own time), but an MP3 wristwatch sounds like a cool idea.
There's one made by Casio.
Joaquim
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From: jdc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ebay
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Joaquim
==0
I have bought and
Are there any performance issues concerning PCMCIA FireWire against built
in FireWire on a G3 Powerbook? I'm willing to use a Lombard 333 with a
MOTU FirwWire audio interface (828 MKII) for HD recording and I was warned
by a vendor about possible hitces with PCMCIA FireWire and OS 9.x. He was
not
http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/conel/mp3watch/
Pretty cool. I wonder why they didn't make the MMC removable. Looks
like there ought to be enough space in that fat body.
-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards
Available for ARM, 8051, x86, Linux, technical writing/proofreading and
other contract projects.
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 04:36 PM, jdc wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that
most Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do
anything about this?
actually... it seems that most of the PowerBook scams i've seen have
been ebayers scamming
I don't have any firsthand knowledge with the Pismo but from everything
I've seen they are rock solid. If you want something that is
upgradeable the Pismo is your ticket. I had the opportunity to work in
my local High School for the last 7 wks of school as the Computer Lab
assistant and all
New 700mhz CD only under $800. If it were up to me I'd pony up for a
new iBook- its the first new mac I've bought in the last 13 years.
Ummm.. not meaning any offense, but why? The last time I bought a new
computer was in 1990. That was a high-end 386 IIRC, close to being
cutting-edge
on 7/14/03 4:28 PM, Bruce Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
Hmm. I could care less about the cellphone (email lets me deal with
things in my own time), but an MP3 wristwatch sounds like a cool idea.
ASCII shall recieve!
http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/conel/mp3watch/
Requires Windows 98 and USB; doesn't work with Win95 or MacOS
Which is pretty stupid, really - it would have been easy to make it
appear as a storage class driver - but I guess it's pretty old and the
storage class wasn't widely implemented back
I have recently upgraded from a 266MHz WallStreet (192MB RAM) to a 500MHz
Pismo (640MB RAM).
This has allowed me to switch to OS X full time. On the WallStreet Mac OS
X was rock solid, but the video performance was just good enough to run
all the eye candy in the OS X Finder. I was booted in
Your assumptions are not entirely accurate. I bought my son's ibook
for $1200. Used average on ebay at the time, for combo drive older
model only about $130 less with slower processor, smaller hard drive,
slower combo drive, and weaker video card, out of warranty. SmallDog
selling Apple
slower combo drive, and weaker video card, out of warranty. SmallDog
selling Apple refurbed 800mhz combo drives for under $1000 for next 3
Whoa! Apple refurbed is not new. It's B-stock. By new new I mean A-
stock, never been sullied by the hands of Joe Consumer. Let's compare
apples and
Hello All,
I have a white 500Mhz iBook, whose battery seems to be all but dead. It
manages to hold about 20 mins of charge... Does anyone have any miracle
tricks for reviving an old battery?
I enquired about re-packing it, but that was going to cost about the same as
a new one (I have bought a
I disagree
Doesn't matter. B-stock is B-stock. It doesn't matter how much/little
an article has been used, if it has been decapsulated by the end-user
and returned to the factory, it is B-stock. It would only be A-stock if
it had gone to an Apple store, been overstocked, and gone
so what's your point?
-BE
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 09:47 PM, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
I disagree
Doesn't matter. B-stock is B-stock. It doesn't matter how much/little
an article has been used, if it has been decapsulated by the end-user
and returned to the factory, it is B-stock. It
so what's your point?
Excellent question. At this point, I've no idea. I'm sitting up
injecting concentrated coffee into my eyeballs waiting for two banks on
opposite sides of the world to acknowledge a transaction so I can feed
the guinea-pigs and get a few hours' sleep.
-- Lewin A.R.W.
Joaquim wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Most PowerBook sales are scams? I bought recently 2 Pismos and a Lombard
on eBay. While still awaiting the Lombard's arrival,
Thanks for the smile!
I'm sitting at my kitchen table replying to email on the cool powerbook
I got which looks feels and smells like a new machine that I got for
$100 or so savings...not to mention the refurbished airport extreme
card...
-BE
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 09:56 PM, Lewin
gianfranco wrote:
Are there any performance issues concerning PCMCIA FireWire against built
in FireWire on a G3 Powerbook? I'm willing to use a Lombard 333 with a
MOTU FirwWire audio interface (828 MKII) for HD recording and I was warned
by a vendor about possible hitces with PCMCIA FireWire and
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 10:58 PM, Dan K wrote:
Joaquim wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that
most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Most PowerBook sales are scams? I bought recently 2 Pismos and a
Lombard
On 07/14/2003, Tom Roth apparently wrote:
I've been following this thread as I contemplate the next used PowerBook =
to buy. I currently have a PB3400 so I would like to get up into the G3 =
realm next. I see some really good deals on used iBooks but the Pismos =
seem to be very popular and are
On 07/14/2003, Pete Gregory apparently wrote:
Any bright ideas as what the problem is and how to fix it?
My 3 year old pismo (OS 9.22, 382 Mb Ram, stock 20Mb HD) has stopped
recognising CD's. I put a CD or CD-R in the drive, close the unit, the
drive spins up, spins down about a second later
on 7/14/03 9:40 PM, Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What he is referring to is the fact that most powerbook titled auctions
are actually for 'information' on how to get free or cheap stuff from
the government and other businesses. Yes it is false advertising but it
is in no way a
on 7/14/03 9:47 PM, James Rohde at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.insanely-great.com/features/020215.html
link is dead
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